Now Luvo Manyonga leaps to new African indoor record!

JOHANNESBURG – South African superstar Luvo Manyonga continues to shift the barriers in horizontal jumps after he set a new African indoor record at a Metz indoor meeting on Sunday evening.

Manyonga set a new South African indoor long-jump record for a third time in a week with a jump of 8.40m.

His leap was eight centimetres further than the African record Ignisious Gaisah set in 2006.

It is the third time in a week that Manyonga has shifted the South African indoor barrier – first improving on the mark jointly held by Khotso Mokoena and Ruswahl Samaai at a Paris meeting a week ago at his first indoor event.

Last week he added 14 centimetres to the previous record with the first attempt of 8.23m, before landing an 8.32m jump.

He has broken the South African outdoor record twice in 2017 boasting a personal best of 8.65m at the national championships in Potchefstroom in April.

His national and continental outdoor record launched him into 11th place on the world all-time list.

Manyonga completed a winning streak over a full calendar year over 10 meetings before finishing the year off with the Diamond League Trophy in the long jump.

The long-jump phenom’s jump marked the seventh time in as many days that South Africans have posted indoor records.